1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)Windows XP PRO
2. What firewalls you have? Trend Micro P-Cillin, windows one is turned off.
3. How much ram?2 GB DDR2 SDRAM 667 MHz
4. Hard Disk space available? about 79-80%
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)DSL
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers? Trendnet TEW-432 BRP router and Westell Modem
7. Where are you trying to connect from (house, appartment complex, school, student accomodation, work, etc.)? house
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version. LW 4.14.3 PRO and1.6.0_01 Java
9. Who is your ISP (Internet Service Provider)?Bellsouth
10. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there? a page came up with It Worked on it
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up. I have 1 other computer in the same room as mine directly connected to my modem and 1 in another distant room connected to the router on my pc
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user. Experienced user
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? yes
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...1&d=1158099342
14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled? uhhhh not sure how to check this but it's been working fine with all previous versions of LW
15. What security programs are you using (antivirus etc)? Some people might not be aware that their security suite includes a firewall Trend-micro P-Cillin
16. What country are you living in? Sometimes there are ISPs with the same name in more than one country (eg Clearwire in the USA & also in Ireland). USA

Ok let's start with Trend Micro P-Cillin...
Follow these instructions and see if you have it configured correctly...
Port Forwarding for the Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security

Also your Router has a Nat Firewall...
These are your instructions to Port Forward...
Port Forwarding for the Trendnet TEW-432BRP

See how you get on with that and let me know how you go...

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Well I guess I forgot to mention that my P-Cillin version is Internet Security 14, not the 2007 one I saw on the link you gave me so the instructions were quite confusing since I had some different features. I tried it anyway and at the end of all that my program wouldn't accept the new rule. Ithen took a look at the router instructions and quickly gave up. I did manage to go in and set my Limewire to the manual port thing but it was already enabled for the unp thingy which is the recommended option so I hope I haven't screwed things up. I set the maual port number to the same one as the listening port was already set to since the instructions said to just pick a port. did I mention that my connection status in limewire always says turbo-charged? I can download files and others can upload. It just seems that there are fewer search results and slower spped for searches and downloads than there were before i upgraded past the 4.12 versions. well actuall 4.13 worked fine for a little while before going all buggy on me. What I'm really asking is do I really need to do all this if I actually have a connection? I am able to download files, just not as many or as fast as before on many of them. I still do get some higher speed ones but not often.

If your downloading and uploading fine you don't have to worry about Port Forwarding...But it could be the cause of slow search results and download speed...

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I think what I'm going to do is to go back and reinstall the earlier version I was using before the 4.13. I think that 4.12 had that search feature in the library that I really want and need since I have over 3000 files. or I could try 4.13 again and maybe the next download of it will be better than the last one. If I uninstall limewire completely and all the old folders of the previous versions before reinstalling, will I lose all my files and have to start over? I'm not sure if all the upgrades I've done just installs over the old versions and leaves them or if it deletes them first. If they're still there I could just go back and find it and use that and uninstall this version.

No need to uninstall, just install the version you want to use know over the top of your existing limewire...

If you do choose to uninstall make sure you use the Limewire uninstaller, which you will find in Start > All Programs > Limewire/Uninstaller...
Dont' use the add/remove programs...
Your files will all still be there if you do choose the uninstall option...

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Well, I wish they'd just go back and add the search feature for the library to the 4.12 versions. I can do without the rest since everything seemed to work better. it was jsut a pain to sort through over 3000 files when I was ready to burn files. I always tried to download stuff with the band name and not something that started with a number or song or album title. that way I didn't have to hunt high and low for every single thing-they'd all be in one place and I could just scroll down the alphabetical list to get to it. Maybe I should suggest this in the new feature request forum.

Okay, let me make sure I understand. I can reinstall LW without have to first uninstall it? I printed off instructions in the post about fixes when LW isn't working that say to first uninstall LW using the LW uninstaller and then reinstall using the offline installer. I went back to Java 5 update 12 and also deleted my LW preference folder and ended up losing my downloaded themes, which really sucks because I can't seem to download them back, not in LW anyway and I don't do the zipped file thingy from the interent option because Zips make me want to pull my hair out. None of this speeded anything up and I still have the brick wall but I am able to download some songs but not like before with the 4.12 version. I found out that my personal download/update page I have with my Pro version does have the option to install earlier versions so I want to reinstall the 4.12 version and I'll just have to bloody well get used to not having that neat little search function for the library anymore but it beats not being able to get much to look in the library for in the first place. I'm afraid to totally uninstall limewire first because I don't want to lose anything else. I don't know why I lost the themes. Couldn't I just install the other version first and then unintall the old one? But I think LW automatically uninstalls the older version when you're installing the new one. And why is it so important to use an offline version? I apologize if I've asked anything that has already been answered somewhere on this forum but after 2-3 days of almost contant searching in here and messing around with LW, I just couldn't read anymore posts. Sorry this post is so long. I'll try to leave y'all alone some if I ever get back to where I was happily downloading everyday.